Celebrated urban theorist lifts the lid on the effects of a global explosion of disenfranchised slum-dwellers.
According to the United Nations, more than one billion people now live in the slums of the cities of the South. In this brilliant and ambitious book, Mike Davis explores the future of a radically unequal and explosively unstable urban world.
Celebrated urban theorist lifts the lid on the effects of a global explosion of disenfranchised slum-dwellers.
According to the United Nations, more than one billion people now live in the slums of the cities of the South. In this brilliant and ambitious book, Mike Davis explores the future of a radically unequal and explosively unstable urban world.
From the sprawling barricadas of Lima to the garbage hills of Manila, urbanization has been disconnected from industrialization, even economic growth. Davis portrays a vast humanity warehoused in shantytowns and exiled from the formal world economy. He argues that the rise of this informal urban proletariat is a wholly original development unforeseen by either classical Marxism or neoliberal theory.
Are the great slums, as a terrified Victorian middle class once imagined, volcanoes waiting to erupt? Davis provides the first global overview of the diverse religious, ethnic, and political movements competing for the souls of the new urban poor. He surveys Hindu fundamentalism in Bombay, the Islamist resistance in Casablanca and Cairo, street gangs in Cape Town and San Salvador, Pentecostalism in Kinshasa and Rio de Janeiro, and revolutionary populism in Caracas and La Paz.Planet of Slums ends with a provocative meditation on the "war on terrorism" as an incipient world war between the American empire and the slum poor.
封面背面写的作者简介: ... 以及最新出版的《BUDA的武器:汽车炸弹简史》(BUDA'S WAGON: A BRIEF HISTORY OF THE CAR BOMB)。 这么写的话,应该排除了校对的责任,是译者的问题了吧? 再看序,是潘纯林的导师王晓路写的. 最后一段: "... 纯琳是我最四川大学指导的博士生... 这...
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【卡拉OK法西斯主义 karaoke fascism】 源自人类学者Monique Skidmore的书名《卡拉OK法西斯主义:缅甸与恐怖政治》(Karaoke Fascism: Burma and the Politics of Fear)。她访问了城市周围一些凄凉的小镇——所谓的“新领地”——仰光外面军事专制强制重新安置的成千上万都市...
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In the aftermath of the corruption-tainted 2005 Zimbabwe elections.... one police official reportedly urged his men: " From tomorrow, I need reports on my desk saying that we have shot people. The President has given his full support for this operation so there is nothing to fear. You should treat this operation as WAR." 清扫贫民窟的行动,到哪里都那么荒谬
2011-08-29 20:01
In the aftermath of the corruption-tainted 2005 Zimbabwe elections....
one police official reportedly urged his men: " From tomorrow, I need reports on my desk saying that we have shot people. The President has given his full support for this operation so there is nothing to fear. You should treat this operation as WAR."引自第113页
In the aftermath of the corruption-tainted 2005 Zimbabwe elections.... one police official reportedly urged his men: " From tomorrow, I need reports on my desk saying that we have shot people. The President has given his full support for this operation so there is nothing to fear. You should treat this operation as WAR." 清扫贫民窟的行动,到哪里都那么荒谬
2011-08-29 20:01
In the aftermath of the corruption-tainted 2005 Zimbabwe elections....
one police official reportedly urged his men: " From tomorrow, I need reports on my desk saying that we have shot people. The President has given his full support for this operation so there is nothing to fear. You should treat this operation as WAR."引自第113页
In the aftermath of the corruption-tainted 2005 Zimbabwe elections.... one police official reportedly urged his men: " From tomorrow, I need reports on my desk saying that we have shot people. The President has given his full support for this operation so there is nothing to fear. You should treat this operation as WAR." 清扫贫民窟的行动,到哪里都那么荒谬
2011-08-29 20:01
In the aftermath of the corruption-tainted 2005 Zimbabwe elections....
one police official reportedly urged his men: " From tomorrow, I need reports on my desk saying that we have shot people. The President has given his full support for this operation so there is nothing to fear. You should treat this operation as WAR."引自第113页
2 有用 Dear Lu 2014-06-26
まあまあ……很佩服作者用了这么多材料,以及Third World是个很复杂的问题,不是一两句postcolonialism, neoliberalism就可以打发掉的。
1 有用 开开及第 2018-02-18
一份大型文献综述,而且使用的材料基本全是对现象的报道,然后对它们加以横向比较,归纳共性,却没有分析框架,更没有理论洞见。写作也繁冗琐碎没有节奏感。的确是成功放大了一个被忽视的重大议题,但只适合当资料查,还都是二手的。
0 有用 真猪奶茶 2014-10-12
很重要的书,但是分析单薄
0 有用 被开发故意把夹 2013-03-04
worth reading
0 有用 夏 2009-09-30
我是
1 有用 开开及第 2018-02-18
一份大型文献综述,而且使用的材料基本全是对现象的报道,然后对它们加以横向比较,归纳共性,却没有分析框架,更没有理论洞见。写作也繁冗琐碎没有节奏感。的确是成功放大了一个被忽视的重大议题,但只适合当资料查,还都是二手的。
0 有用 真猪奶茶 2014-10-12
很重要的书,但是分析单薄
2 有用 Dear Lu 2014-06-26
まあまあ……很佩服作者用了这么多材料,以及Third World是个很复杂的问题,不是一两句postcolonialism, neoliberalism就可以打发掉的。
0 有用 被开发故意把夹 2013-03-04
worth reading
0 有用 夏 2009-09-30
我是